| The Creatures – Prettiest Thing Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I get the feeling that this is the daydream of a rapist or serial killer as he studies his prospective victim. | |
| Skillet – Hero Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This sounds like it was written to be the rolling credits theme for a mediocre blockbuster movie. |
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| Morphine – Buena Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Sigh... Mark Sandman was not a heroin addict. There's no evidence even to suggest he ever even used heroin once. He died of a heart attack, and the heart attach was NOT caused by drugs. The vast majority of his songs are about women, sex, and love gone wrong, but a few songs that have ambiguous lyrics that MIGHT be about drugs are what everyone focuses on. You don't have to personally be a drug addict to write insightful lyrics about the effects of drugs, just as you don't have to be a murderer to write a song about murder. Sandman himself said he was never into drugs, and his band and others who knew him have repeatedly said the same. But the drug addict thing just won't die. It's sad that we've become so jaded that we can't imagine an artist's inspiration coming from anything but chemical dependency. |
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| Morphine – Hanging On A Curtain Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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My take is that the narrator is talking to a young woman he is seducing. Hanging on a curtain definitely makes me think of a kitten. He's describing her in terms that are similar to how you might talk about a cute pet kitten. I can picture her hand gripping a curtain and pulling on it as they make out. She likes to hear him talk, maybe hearing him talk about what he's doing to her. Unfortunately I have no clue what to make of the the blue toes. Maybe she's got frostbite, or he has a clown shoe fetish. It could just be a great sounding phrase. That's the terrific thing about Sandman's lyrics, they evoke images and moods without going into explicit detail. The notion of pedophilia in this song seems pretty far-fetched to me. MAYBE a bit of a Lolita element at worst. It's sad that Mark is no longer with us to explain... |
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| Billy Joel – Captain Jack Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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In an interview in Playboy Magazine in 1982, Billy Joel him self explains the meaning of this song... PLAYBOY: What was Captain Jack about? JOEL: I wrote it when drugs were in full flower. A lot of useless, wasted deaths. Friends of mine were killed. Drugs can be fun, but they can kill, too. Some guys who lived near me in Oyster Bay used to score smack from a guy called Captain Jack, although I didn't write it to necessarily mean heroin. I meant any kind of drug you have to take over and over again. There you have it. Captain Jack is the name of a drug dealer. The song itself is about drug abuse, but not any specific drug. Any other interpretation is at odds with Billy Joel's own description. The full Billy Joel interview from Playboy can be read here: http://www.piano-man.de |
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| Pere Ubu – 30 Seconds Over Tokyo Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Seems fairly clear... This song presents the thoughts of a World War II airman who flew a bombing raid on Tokyo in the early stages of the war. The metal dragon is an aircraft. The sun reflects off the plane's canopy. The plane is a B-25 bomber, thus the '25. "Dark flak spiders" is a great description of the characteristic clouds of smoke produced by anti-aircraft fire. Toy city streets is a reference to how the streets look from the air, and possibly also a bit of a pun on Tokyo. Clumps of mushrooms are the bursts of the dropped bombs on the ground. (Contrary to popular belief, mushroom clouds are not a distinct feature of nuclear explosions, but happen with conventional explosives as well, just on a smaller scale.) In April 1942, a group of B-25 bombers took off from an aircraft carrier they were not designed for, on a mission to bombard the Japanase industrial infrastructure in Tokyo. The mission was dangerous, and some of the men did not return. A book entitled "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" was written about this mission, and was later made into a movie. |
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